: Can´t verify my site on Google (error 403 Forbidden). I have other sites in the same host with no problems whatsoever I can´t verify my site on Google. I´ve done this several times for

@Shakeerah822

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I can´t verify my site on Google.

I´ve done this several times for several sites, all inside the same host.

I´ve tried the HTML tag method, HTML upload, Domain Name provider (I canp´t find the options that Google tell me that I should activate...), and Google Analytics.

I always get this response:


Verification failed for www.mysite.com/ using the Google Analytics method (1 minute ago). Your verification file returns a status of 403 (Forbidden) instead of 200 (OK).


I´ve checked the server headers, and I get this result:



REQUESTING: www.mysite.com GET / HTTP/1.1 Connection: Keep-Alive Keep-Alive: 300 Accept:/ Host: mysite.com Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)


SERVER RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012
03:25:22 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.19 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.19
OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.2.17 Connection:
close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Final Destination Page (It shows my actual homepage).


What can I do? The hosting is the very same as in my other sites, where I didn´t have any issue at all! Thanks for your help!

Note: As I have a Drupal 7 site, I´ve tried a "Drupal solution" first, but haven´t found any that solved this issue...

How can it be forbidden when I can access the link perfectly ok? Is there any solution to this? Thanks!

Almost forgot to add: I´ve checked my error logs:


173.194.98.19 - - [19/Sep/2012:00:35:33 -0300] "GET /google03h063571yf562bk.html HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-"
"Google-Site-Verification/1.0"

181.25.218.223 - - [19/Sep/2012:00:35:45 -0300] "GET /google03h063571yf562bk.html HTTP/1.1" 200 53 "-" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1"

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